Tissue clearing and its applications in neuroscience

HR Ueda, A Ertürk, K Chung, V Gradinaru… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
State-of-the-art tissue-clearing methods provide subcellular-level optical access to intact
tissues from individual organs and even to some entire mammals. When combined with light …

Whole-brain profiling of cells and circuits in mammals by tissue clearing and light-sheet microscopy

HR Ueda, HU Dodt, P Osten, MN Economo… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Tissue clearing and light-sheet microscopy have a 100-year-plus history, yet these fields
have been combined only recently to facilitate novel experiments and measurements in …

Tissue clearing technique: Recent progress and biomedical applications

T Tian, Z Yang, X Li - Journal of anatomy, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organisms are inherently three dimensional, thus comprehensive understanding of the
complicated biological system requires analysis of organs or even whole bodies in the …

Biomedical applications of tissue clearing and three-dimensional imaging in health and disease

MV Gomez-Gaviro, D Sanderson, J Ripoll, M Desco - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
Summary Three-dimensional (3D) optical imaging techniques can expand our knowledge
about physiological and pathological processes that cannot be fully understood with 2D …

Nicotine induces morphological and functional changes in astrocytes via nicotinic receptor activity

SP Aryal, X Fu, JN Sandin, KR Neupane, JE Lakes… - Glia, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nicotine is a highly addictive compound present in tobacco, which causes the release of
dopamine in different regions of the brain. Recent studies have shown that astrocytes …

Corpora cavernosa fibroblasts mediate penile erection

EL Guimaraes, DO Dias, WF Hau, A Julien, D Holl… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Penile erection is mediated by the corpora cavernosa, a trabecular-like vascular bed that
enlarges upon vasodilation, but its regulation is not completely understood. Here, we show …

Tools and Approaches for Studying Microglia In vivo

E Eme-Scolan, SJ Dando - Frontiers in Immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Microglia are specialized resident macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS) that
have important functions during neurodevelopment, homeostasis and disease. This mini …

Distinct origin and region-dependent contribution of stromal fibroblasts to fibrosis following traumatic injury in mice

D Holl, WF Hau, A Julien, S Banitalebi, J Kalkitsas… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Fibrotic scar tissue formation occurs in humans and mice. The fibrotic scar impairs tissue
regeneration and functional recovery. However, the origin of scar-forming fibroblasts is …

HSP70/IL-2 treated NK cells effectively cross the blood brain barrier and target tumor cells in a rat model of induced glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)

F Sharifzad, S Mardpour, S Mardpour… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Natural killer (NK) cell therapy is one of the most promising treatments for Glioblastoma
Multiforme (GBM). However, this emerging technology is limited by the availability of …

A novel optical tissue clearing protocol for mouse skeletal muscle to visualize endplates in their tissue context

MPI Williams, M Rigon, T Straka, SJ Hörner… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Neuromuscular junctions (NMJs) mediate skeletal muscle contractions and play an
important role in several neuromuscular disorders when their morphology and function are …